Bi Consultant, Health Equity

Advocate Health seeks a Business Intelligence Consultant for the new Advocate National Center for Health Equity (ANCHE). Advocate Health strives to be a catalyst for meaningful, positive change in all the communities it serves. ANCHE will harness the full resources of Advocate Health, one of the largest nonprofit health systems in the United States, to address the root causes of health disparities by: co-creating transformative interventions and technologies with clinicians; developing and disseminating information, tools, and best practices to improve Health Equity in communities that Advocate Health serves; and partnering with internal and external stakeholders to advance Advocate Health’s mission to provide equitable health and health care for all.

The Business Intelligence Consultant will work cross-functionally across enterprise teams to manage analytical application projects strategically aligned to ANCHE and Community & Social Impact (CSI) priorities and initiatives. The position is responsible for synthesizing and interpreting clinical and administrative data, evaluating trends and statistical significance, developing expertise and ownership of specific measure definitions and datasets, and using software and query skills to help define and provide high-quality, cost-effective patient care, and to improve performance on Health Equity goals. This position works in collaboration with other technical experts and teams including ANCHE Impact Evaluation to facilitate and drive efficient data mining, analysis, and system-wide reporting. The Business Intelligence Consultant serves as an expert resource across the system and participates in developing relevant performance improvement strategies in fulfillment of ANCHE’s strategic priorities and commitments across the Advocate Health enterprise.

Key Responsibilities

• Manages the project life cycle related to data and reporting by leading design sessions, monitoring project status, establishing timelines for completion, managing project task dependencies, and coordinating release to production.
• Effectively communicates with and responds to customers, team members, leaders and senior executives to provide in-depth, thoughtful analyses, consultation, and knowledge transfer.
• Demonstrates ability to quickly and independently learn and adopt new software tools and query data systems (data warehouse or other database and reporting systems).
• For executive level reporting, creates concise summaries of key report conclusions and translates analyses and visualizations into understandable, practical, and actionable recommendations.
• Collaborates with ANCHE Impact Evaluation to analyze and interpret administrative data, clinical data, and government quality data and measures, and appropriately applies statistical methods (measures of central tendency, confidence intervals, correlations, percentiles, regression).
• Collaborates with ANCHE Impact Evaluation to conduct impact analyses to inform measure definition, or program effectiveness studies to guide the strategic and operational decisions of key stakeholders.
• Acts as primary contact for assigned vendors, coordinating their work, managing data and analytic projects to completion within the scope of the contract, managing statistical software contracts.
• Assumes leadership roles and actively participates on committees, councils, task forces, or work groups. Leads groups related to analytic projects.
• Triages customer questions by processing, referring, or escalating to the appropriate individuals; identifies and mitigates roadblocks and barriers to successful project implementation.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Education/Experience Required

High School Diploma or GED required; Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Business Administration or related field preferred.

Minimum knowledge, skills, and abilities

• 5 years’ experience in healthcare planning, operations, or managed care is preferred. 5 years of experience designing, implementing, and managing business intelligence systems also preferred.
• Strong interpersonal relationship and presentation skills necessary.
• Demonstrated strong skills required in the following: Problem solving in a complex systems environment, strategic communications and project planning, written and oral communication, multi-disciplinary collaboration, and ability to work effectively and drive consensus amid diverse stakeholders.
• Must have high proficiency using computer software tools and working with databases is required.
• Expertise in functional systems is strongly preferred.

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